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    Extraction from postpositional phrases embedded in postpositional phrases
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    Complex postpositional phrases normally allow extraction of the complement embedded in them. This is shown for Adposition Phrases (PPs) involving the postpositions: út out and út wei out away.

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    The following examples show that extraction may also take place from complex postpositional phrases, that is, from a postpositional phrase selecting a postpositional phrase:

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    a. [Alle kanten] wiene se út wei kommen
    all sides were they out away come
    They had come from all directions
    b. Hokker kant komme de snippen út wei?
    which side come the snipes out away
    From which direction do the snipes come?

    The following example illustrates that the adverb wer again may intervene between the Noun Phrase (NP) and the most deeply embedded postposition út, of which the NP is a complement. This is shown in the example below.

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    De melkerskarren komme [de mieden] wer út wei
    the milk.carts come the meadowns again out away
    The milk carts are coming out of the meadows again

    The preposition fan of, from occasionally pops up in the complement of the lowest postposition, as in the following sentence:

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    a. Wa wit wiene de Friezen besibbe oan 'e Ingelsen út 'e Midlands, fanwegen de drokke skipfeart op Hull en Harwich [fan Harns] út wei
    who knows were the Frisian related to the Englishmen from The Midlands because.of the busy ship.traffic to Hull and Harwich from Harns out away
    Who knows, the Frisians might be related to the Englishmen from The Midlands, because of the intense shipping trade to Hull and Harwich from Harns
    b. Doe dreau ús / [fan it súd] út wei / in yskokarre temjitte
    then floated us from the south out away an ice-cream.vendor towards
    Then an ice-cream vendor floated towards us from the south

    The postpositional phrase as a whole can be questioned, regardless of whether the preposition is present or not:

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    (Fan) hokker kant út wei kaam de stoarm?
    (from) which side out away came the storm
    From which direction did the storm come?

    Note that subextraction crucially depends on selection. No subextraction is possible from a PP that is not selected:

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    a. *Hokker kant koe hja him net út wei oankommen sjen?
    which way could she him not out away come see
    From which direction could she not see him coming?
    b. Hja koe him dy kant út wei net oankommen sjen
    she could him that way out away not come see
    She could not see him coming from that direction

    In these examples, the PP functions as an adverbial.

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      About this article
      Author(s): Eric Hoekstra
      Category: Frisian Syntax
      Keywords: út 'out'út wei 'out away'postpositional phrase
      Version: 1.0, December 2015
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